Showing papers by "Neal Halfon published in 1991"
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TL;DR: Over the past century, child morbidity and mortality has decreased for most children in Western societies due to improved living conditions and advances in health services, but growing numbers of poor and disadvantaged children in the United States still do not enjoy even the most basic services like prenatal care and regular immunizations.
Abstract: Over the past century, child morbidity and mortality has decreased for most children in Western societies due to improved living conditions and advances in health services.1 Nevertheless, growing numbers of poor and disadvantaged children in the United States still do not enjoy even the most basic services like prenatal care and regular immunizations.2 While many of the infectious diseases that threatened all children earlier in the century have been eliminated among middle and upper class Americans, such diseases continue to affect the poor and underserved.3 Moreover, scholars and public health officials are now recognizing "new morbidities" such as developmental delays, school problems, emotional and behavioral problems, child abuse and neglect, intrauterine drug or alcohol exposure, and the effects of family disruption and violence.4 Unlike the uold morbidities," which have single biological origins amenable to
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